it's easier to control. don't yall see all the transphobic threads? now imagine that IRL. it would be a disaster, terrible for sponsorships, terrible for their purposes
context: max capacity of CBLoL's arena is 100 people.
can't you hear the crowd? they wouldn't have to ask anyone if a group of people were loud enough. i am not saying such thing would necessarily happen, but that's a possibility
i'm brazilian i know, and you also know that the social bubble that goes to those events are usually not that transphobic, i honestly think the average brazilian valorant viewer is not any more transphobic than the average NA/EU viewer, we're just a country of extremes
could be. but if im Rioter and im doing a GC tournament in brazil i'll be highly concerned about trasphobia considering all the stats. because, yk, i can't take risks.
but in the end we can only speculate. the possibility i presented makes sense for me, but we'll never know